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Our placements.

If you are a student looking to develop your design skills and gain engineering experience, you can apply for a placement with us! Working on live projects, you’ll have a chance to make a real impact.

Our summer placements typically last between 8-12 weeks. You’ll work within one of our friendly design teams, gaining a valuable insight into the career options available to you.

Placements are a fantastic way for you as undergraduate to gain industry experience during your studies and put theory into practice. They also help to provide an enhanced opportunity to secure a permanent position with us once you graduate.

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What are we looking for?

These days, engineering is a lot more than pipes and wires; we look at the building as a whole and are involved in every stage, from initial client discussions right through to construction and even the building’s ongoing performance. You’ll have a genuine interest in developing a career within building services, and be armed with ideas, enthusiasm, confidence, and a creative spirit. You’ll be allocated a mentor and a supervisor, who will give you guidance and support throughout your time with us.

We want to ensure our people hold similar values when working with us. Read about our values here.

We were one of the first firms from the building services sector to sign a climate emergency declaration, acknowledging how drastic action is needed to address climate breakdown and biodiversity loss. We then developed five key steps that will allow us to start making tangible changes and set out an immediate course of action. These actions are something all our people can get behind, and we celebrate designers and engineers who incorporate biodiversity and climate considerations in all that they do.

Our people.

Having joined Hoare Lea as a graduate mechanical engineer in 2006, I always had the support, inspiration, and opportunities I needed to progress my career and develop as a professional. Now 12 years later I’m a team leader and associate, leading teams of engineers to deliver projects. I also provide mentoring and leadership to enable today’s graduates to become chartered engineers.

Frances Brown

Associate

I joined Hoare Lea as a graduate mechanical engineer in 2001 after graduating in Building Design Engineering from Strathclyde University. Following a varied seven years of fantastic projects, developing my engineering and project leadership skills, I transferred to the Sustainability Group. Now, as the partner lead for Sustainability, I look after a group of hugely talented individuals all striving to make a positive impact in the industry and beyond.

James Ford

Partner

Hoare Lea values initiative and commitment. If you have the same values when it comes to your professional development and the work you carry out; you’ll really appreciate having a career here. As a sustainability graduate, I get the opportunity to work on interesting projects that add value to our clients, the building users and the wider community. It is very rewarding to work in a firm that is conscious of the current climate crisis and is taking every measure to tackle this in practice and through the work we do for our clients.

Nicole Toolseram

Graduate

I joined Hoare Lea as a graduate in 1999 after graduating with an MEng in Industrial Engineering from the University of Surrey. I was afforded great opportunities to learn, develop, and lead projects and teams in the early stages of my career and obtain my CEng. I am now the Managing Partner of the Bournemouth office which encompasses many responsibilities including overseeing the development of future generations of leaders of the firm.

Steve Delvin

Partner

Being an environmentalist, I’m pleased to work for a firm that shares the same beliefs as me. Hoare Lea made it clear on how they contribute to providing sustainable solutions to the challenges we face today. Since joining the sustainability team, I’ve worked on projects where I’m able to make a positive impact on reducing carbon emissions, and influence others at the same time. It’s great to work for a firm whose values align with your own; and work for a team who are on the same wavelength as you.

Verel Rodrigues

Graduate

You get: an enhanced opportunity to join us permanently.

Our placement students often join us as graduates during the following year’s intake. It is a fantastic opportunity for you to be offered a graduate role following high performance during your placement.

Accreditations.

Our placement application process.

You complete an online application that requires a CV, cover letter, and answering three questions. Applications open at the end of September and close at the end of December.

If you are successful you will be invited to a telephone interview between October and December.

We get in touch with you shortly after your interview to let you know whether we can offer you a placement.

How to apply.

Click on the button below to apply for our summer placement programmes. You will be asked to upload your CV and answer a couple of application questions.

Applications close on 1 January 2020, but positions are filled every day so apply as early as you can!

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